Occupation: Author Birth: May 16, 1912 Death: October 31, 2008
Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread..
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing..
Hope never trickles down. It always springs up..
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him..
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to..
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it..
I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'….
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for ….
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged figh….
Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours..
The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong..
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us..
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation..
When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest r….
I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a….
More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication..
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits..
If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street..
Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got….
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'..
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count..