When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Con….

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

There will always be an underground..

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids..

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity..

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents..

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life..

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

You can make anything out of anything..

I couldn't be happier..

Africa is on the rise..

Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now..

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture..

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa..

You get what you get when you get it..

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things..

I have to remember the good people in the world outnumber the bad people. I think when you start to feel frustrated or you have no hope left in human….

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize t….