Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free.
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.