He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.

Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.