Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.