We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.