We must resist the temptations to be very wasteful of simple things, tossing them aside as of no consequence, in a world of almost frenetic concentration on material success.

Seek the good in life and life will be good to you.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist

My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

We are at a low. But I wouldn't say it's a low where we are tossing in the towel and giving up and saying there's nothing else we can do. It's not like that. It's a low like where the next day can't come quick enough.