(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.