The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

Food is love, " I replied."No, babe, it ain't. But makin' it for the ones you love so they can brag about it is, " Take returned.

I would've had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn't so simple. I'd been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.