Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

What can't be helped must be endured.

After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.