One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Death began to look like a friend.

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

Mother's love grows by giving.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.