Dreaming men are haunted men.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Every adversity is the fuel for the soul. The greatest self-realization occurs during the greatest adversity.

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.