No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.

The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.