P. H. Solomon Quotes
Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.
The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.
Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.
I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
I … noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.
Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.
There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.
I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.
All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.
I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
