I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them.
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here. ' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.
A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.
The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.
Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.