I'm not most people. I have no patience for those who can't execute a plan with elegance.

Survival isn't a race. It's a dance.

I had never owned a pair of jeans, and I didn't plan on it. I'm not a cowboy, a farmer, or a 1950s greaser.

We are one people until you decide we are one person in the churning sea of humanity.

I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.

...to the last I grapple with thee

The real truth lies below the surface.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.