If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.