But even of him I can think of with sorrow, now at this moment.Those times, those people...have gone. How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Twolegs are mad. Even the smallest kit knows that.

You have to keep looking on the bright, because you'll never find anything in the dark.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.

Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.