In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.

Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Why we love with close heartsWhy we love with souls apart Let the love flow from hearts to souls, Let the world glow

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

I was raised in the church.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.