I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.