But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.