“punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.” 

“There is no such thing as a perfect leader. We have to learn to lead ourselves.” 

“Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.” 

“I’m not sure we can understand another country if we don’t understand our own.” 

“The earth has its music for those who will listen.”

“That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”

“The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests.”

“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”

“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

“In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” 

“we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” 

“As Dr. King once said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” 

“The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”

“The bible is literature, not dogma.”

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

“To know your future you must know your past”

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence

“That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow for consciousness to change.” 

“Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.”