He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Eating is an agricultural act.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.