all deaths are one's own.

We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Love is the only effective counter to death.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

In all dying our ages are the same.

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Second by second you lose the opportunity to become the person you want to be. Take charge of your life.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.