We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Sometimes, when you really want to get to know a person but have boundaries that prevent you from doing so, you learn about them as much as you can.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

By inspiring and healing others, you inspire and heal yourself.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!

I just fought with all my heart. I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.