Effective action is always unjust.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.