It is most sad to watch the fall Of autumn leaves!--but worst of all It is to watch the flower of spring Faded in its fresh blossoming!

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

I am a rationalist. ...I mean ...[I] wish... to understand the world, and to learn by arguing with others. (...I do not say a rationalist holds the mistaken theory that men are... rational.)

Along crags and sunless cracks I go, Up rib of rock, down spine of stone, I dare not slumber where the right winds whistle, Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle.

楼船夜雪瓜州渡，铁马秋风大散关

Capitalism and British imperialism have exploited the world; and what I fear is that the only form of capitalism you could have would be a military form of capitalism, like Pinochet’s in Chile.

The once and future king.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

My dear reader, read aloud, if possible! If you do so, allow me to thank you for it: if you not only do it yourself, if you also influence others to do it, allow me to thank each one of them, and you again and again! (Preface)

Man has nothing else to do but surrender

No one knew, but it cannot be stressed too frequently, that for effective incantation knowledge is neither necessary nor assumed.

诗界千年靡靡风，兵魂销尽国魂空。集中什九从军乐，亘古男儿一放翁！ 辜负胸中十万兵，百无聊赖以诗呜。谁怜爱国千行泪，说到胡尘意不平！

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

文字可以穿越时空的阻隔，把几百年前的智慧与情感送到我们今天的眼前。

The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything.

No one has the audacity to exclaim: "I don't want to do anything!

We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Great and his Macedonia. The ancient Macedonians no longer exist, they had disappeared from history long time ago. Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century (AD).

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift—a more human face.

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

Our nation found its soul in honor on these fields of Gettysburg one hundred years ago. We must not lose that soul in dishonor now on the fields of hate. To ask for patience from the Negro is to ask him to give more of what he has already given enough. But to fail to ask of him