Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of ra...

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

Be bold, speak from your heart.

That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of to...

Don't confuse love with the fear of being lonely...

On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!

[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning...

Love is not the answer, peace is. Throughout my whole life I have experienced and seen others use love as a reason to treat people with unkindness by being controlling, jealous, shouting in anger, and...

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the...

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you misse...

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

You don't know how to respond, Ferrin said. I'll make it easy for you. The safest course of action for your young rebellion would be to toss me off the tallest cliff you can find. I have played a peri...

Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an ang...

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.