And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

I'm sorry I left without telling you, " she says. "I wasn't ready. I wanted it so much, and I wasn't ready for that.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.