Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.