You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

With every new day come the Lord’s great love, grace and mercies.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.