John Howard Ferguson Quotes & Sayings

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on. — William, Saroyan

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space. — Deepak Chopra

I've turned down too many gods to
Start inventing my own now
Or believe in yours either. — Joanna McClure

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. — Gautama Buddha

I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement. — Wynton Marsalis

Your people contain incredible potential, but they die without using much of it. — Octavia E. Butler