The moment one is on the side of life "peace and security" drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Sin, guilt, neurosis-they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.