If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Circumstances, events or situations have no power except that which you give them.

The greatest risk is not taking one.

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, the FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.