Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.

... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country