Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.