I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

School will bring you more success than marriage.

The ultimate way to change something is to change what is behind that something. Change what is behind something and something will change!

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them.

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.

We're Mexi-cans not Mexi-can'ts.

I always hold out hope. Mediation is an opportunity for each side to present their case, and for us to get back to the table again.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.