The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
Small children won't let you sleep, bigger children won't let you live.
God’s love for us is everlasting. That means that God’s love for us existed before we were born and will exist after we have died. It is an eternal love in which we are embraced. Living a spiritual life calls us to claim that eternal love for our...
A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go b...
The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two beings. When I return to Hugo in the evening, to the peace and warmth of the house, I return with deep contentment, as if this was the only condition for...
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then w...
With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too ... If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. To see through to ...
Humans are amazing ritual animals, and it must be understood that the Tzutujil, nor any other real intact people, do not 'practice' rituals. Just as a bear must turn over stumps searching for beetles, real humans can only live life spiritually. Birth...
What a shame it would be, if upon death, one who lived his life following his religion, were to find out that there is no Heaven and no Hell and that all souls just go out and back to the places where they came from, finally free from the monsters th...
There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn - or worse, indifference - cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they ...
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda.
Mostly you are what they think you are.
Helping each other out, that's America.
To Americans, either/or means both.
It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.
Innocence is a kind of insanity
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
