Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.