When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.