All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.