I saw a man pursuing the horizon

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Half of tradition is a lie.

But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

There is nothing- No life, No joy, No pain- There is nothing save opinion, And opinion be damned.

All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

When everybody else thinks it's the end, we have to begin.

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

Leaders aren't born they are made.