All work is an act of philosophy.

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence-man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone’s altar nor for anyone’s cause-life is not one huge hospital.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.