"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 in being. One's value is not in what one has, but in what one is." -- Oscar Romero, The Violence of Love, p. 172

"For the Sioux, wakan connoted everything that was sacred. They believed that all life forms of the universe were one and embodied wakan. The Sioux also held that everything in the natural world was circular, and therefore regarded the circle as sacred." -- James O. Gump, The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, p. 7

"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 inheritance." -- Colossians 3:23, The Message.

"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 must be saved." -- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, p. 65

"Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God." -- John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, p. 22

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