The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

They got to live before they can afford to die.

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.

Know thyself because what else is there to know?

I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.