If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.