When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.