My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.]

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

May God give you the grace to do many good deeds.

It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.

I just can't get used to life.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

The world is healed one loving thought at a time.

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.