A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")

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.

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.