All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.