Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Even the idiot may have a message for us