What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

I don’t think you’re going to start a riot, but until you prove you have more survival instincts than a seriously stressed out lemming, you’ll stay at the bar.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

It's a floor cleaner and a dessert topping.

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

The trick is to begin looking for the grace hidden beneath the struggle.