There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.