[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

The camera is the eye of history.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Those trees seem to grow every year.

The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.