Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

At eighty things do not occur

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people.

Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.