A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.

We might make mistakes but we will make other things too.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us.<br> O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.