...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

Where there is forgiveness, there is always love.

Shared laughter is love made audible.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.