It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.

I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.

I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.