The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

All I wanted to be was a player.

In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.