When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it,but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern,but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

Sometimes we know people who aretoo wonderful for words. I am not one of them.Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

The problem with the politicians of both parties in the US is that neither of them have a real agenda except to feather their own nests. They both have their hands deep in corporate pockets. All the rest is sleight of hand and distraction to keep the public occupied with trivia, divided against each other, and thinking their vote matters.

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

a good friendship euchres the universe.

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.