When The Curtain Falls No One Is

Power! Did You Ever Hear Of Men Being Asked Whether Other Souls Should Have Power Or Not? It Is Born In Them. You May Dam Up The Fountain Of Water, And Make It A Stagnant Marsh, Or You May Let It Run Free And Do Its Work; But You Cannot Say Whether It Shall Be There; It Is There. And It Will Act, If Not Openly For Good, Then Covertly For Evil; But It Will Act.

How Hard It Is To Make Your Thoughts Look Anything But Imbecile Fools When You Paint Them With Ink On Paper.

It Is The Swimmer Who First Leaps Into The Frozen Stream Who Is Cut Sharpest By The Ice; Those Who Follow Him Find It Broken, And The Last Find It Gone. It Is The Men Or Women Who First Tread Down The Path Which The Bulk Of Humanity Will Ultimately Follow, Who Must Find Themselves At Last In Solitudes Where The Silence Is Deadly.

I Think If I Were Dying And I Heard Of An Act Of Injustice, It Would Start Me Up To A Moment's Life Again.

One Has No Right To Form Ideals Of People, And Then, Because They Don't Justify Them, Become Bitter.