Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.