The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance and the human voice.
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.
There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.
Politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
Now that I'm here, where am I?
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out, and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.