But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Give up trying to make me give up

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

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

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

Thought is free.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.