“A grand gesture. But what does it period?
What does it osse? We were always adroiter
with objects than lives, and more facile
at courage than kindness: from the moment”

“Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?”

“fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while”

“Unions were created to make living conditions just a little better than they were before they were created, and the union that does not manifest that kind of interest in human beings cannot endure, it cannot live.”

“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield”

“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?”

“No set of questions is more fundamental to sociology than those about inequality—what is it, why is it, how does it come about, and what can we do to change it.”

“And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.”

“Sincerity is far more valuable than any deed or gesture done for the sake of gaining respect for what we have done for others.”

“… Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”