There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.