"It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle."

"I don't know why red fades before blue it just does."

"Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy."

"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."

"You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice."

"The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried."

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master."

"It's less important to have unanimity than it is to be making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it may seem lonesome."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"Intelligence is a symbiotic relationship between emotion and thought."

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."