Wisdom

More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.

Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

Dogs are angels full of poop.

For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

People always have such a hard time believing that robots could do bad things.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.

All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.

Beatings from truth are better than kisses from lies.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

I have a question for you. 'If your shadow is the second most beautiful thing in the world, which is the first?'.

There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream.

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.