And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

There's plenty of other evidence Trump is in sync with the base, including a major survey released that found that 76 percent of Republicans think Islam is incompatible with the American way of life.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.