If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
The only thing about a man that is a man. . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.
San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate
Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.
There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.