Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

Distraction is a killer of dreams, visions and goals

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Many people fear the words Lord and God.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.

When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.

One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Life - life - let there be life!