"Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish."

"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."

"This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward."

"All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else."

"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."

"You can never learn less, you can only learn more."

"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

"It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'"