“What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.”

“You hear about people wearing fur, but you don’t think about what they’re doing to the animals to get that fur. … [It's] scarier than any scary movie that’s out there. … Just imagine if you were in that situation — put yourself in their shoes. … Animals are just like us.”

“Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots.”

“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

“Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.”

“… what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.”

“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

“If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet — you need to wear the right stuff.”

“it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe”