Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFEAND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.

Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.