A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.