"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."

"How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering."

"A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you."

"It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth."

"When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble."

"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere."

"The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human."

"We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice."

"When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are."

"To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!"

"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick."

"There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything."

"When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again."

"We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces."

"Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor."

"The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement."

"There was none of the quiet insolence about this man."

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."

"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."

"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

"In all the silent manliness of grief."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."