“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
“I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.”
“The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”
“To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”
“Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.”
“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.”