It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

The end of art is peace.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.