There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.