I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. 

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reached the mountaintop of our desires.

Religion is all bunk.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.