“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

“In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” 

“we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” 

“As Dr. King once said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” 

“The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”

“The bible is literature, not dogma.”

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

“To know your future you must know your past”

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence

“That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow for consciousness to change.” 

“Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.” 

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

Memory... is an internal rumor.

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”

“Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.” 

“This balance between tribe and individuality, community and uniqueness, was a surprise in a world that makes us think we have to make a choice between them.” 

“hate generalizes, love specifies” 

“Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door.”