I felt that the man who strove for dignity, nobility, and honour should have his task made as difficult and as hazardous as possible, and that in par… - Kenneth Burke

When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.

We would not deny the mind; but merely remember that as the corrective of wrong thinking is right thinking, the corrective of all thinking is the body.

Upon my enquiring as to what he feared most of the future, he answered: “Destitution. Destitution of finances, destitution of mind, destitution of love. The inability to retort. The need of possessing one’s opposite in years, sex, and texture of the skin; and the knowledge that by this need one has been made repugnant. The replacing of independence by solitude.”