Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.