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

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

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

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

A poem should not mean but be.

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