Not everything has to be immediate.

All names mean something.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands stand up erect.

Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

“You must want to be first-class… meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.”

It is in the nature of language that people can hear the same words but comprehend entirely different meanings.

"I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking."

"The beggar wears all colors fearing none."

"Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages."

"You son of a bitch, she said, I am trying to build a meaningful relationship. you can't build it with a hammer, he said."

"...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something."

"I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art."

"In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means."

"You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have a meaning. Things have accumulated around your name."

"I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands."

"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."

"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."

"Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."