Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

We should not confuse complete faith in God with complete faith in our ability to discern God's voice.

When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

The process is the reality.