The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair.

Never is a long word.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard.

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.