I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than the natural state

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned

The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out