"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages." -- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, p. 42

"Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." -- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, p. 179

"Let us not tire of denouncing the idolatry of wealth, which makes human greatness consist in having and forgets that true greatness is...

"For the Sioux, wakan connoted everything that was sacred. They believed that all life forms of the universe were one and embodied wakan....

"There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves." -- Hermann Hesse, Demian, p. 65

"Do your best. Work from the heart for your real Master, for God, confident that you'll get paid in full when you come into your...

"hunger can make a man do evil just as much as money can." -- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, p. 199

"Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects which...

"Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God." -- John Steinbeck,...

"Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling!" -- Bill Belichick