I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.