“If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it”

“The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”

“We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it.”

“The lessons are in the quest. The answers are found in the journey. These are ripples on a pond. They spread outward. And on we walk...”

“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a distorted image of American history, one informed by, and articulated from, a worldview permeated by white privilege. [sic], these biases are so hardwired that most of us have no idea how quickly and automatically they kick in and how enduring they can be.”

“So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.”

“We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.”