“One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.”
“But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.”
“America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.”
“The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.”
“The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.”
“The real challenges that the country faces come from the winners, not the losers, of the new world.”