And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven.
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.
The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best intere...
The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving.
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the...
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfa...
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
In each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.
Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.
Sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul clean and lit.
Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.
It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The...
I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about...
Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them
My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men
The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched. They slashed and burned the wilderness so that they...