The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." The expression is not subject to definition because, if you don't "dig" what it means, no one can ever tell you.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.