Much handled things are always soft(27).

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

Don't worry if you miss your cue, because there's always doors opening. They keep opening.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Money talks but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk.

Melancholy is no bad thing.