Quotes

The real creativity happens when the herd is unfollowed and a new road is set.

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping … waiting … and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir … open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us … guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love … the clarity of hatred … the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truly dead.

Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man’s worth couldn’t be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorney or politicians, therefore we couldn’t cheat. We were in a really bad way before the white man came, and I don’t know how we managed to get along without the basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society.

A library implies an act of faith.

We don’t believe in coming to market like Apple — high margin, high quality, high price. We believe in high volume and low price.

When I was young I was misled by flash cards into believing that xylophones and zebras were much more common

Frequently our lack is not faith but compassion.

The Internet is a big distraction… It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere

A toxic person kills, and by kills I mean totally destroys teamwork.