"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."
"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
"Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."