The PEOPLE. Quotes
Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest.
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
To become a work of art is the object of living.
Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination
beware women grownoldwho were neveranything butyoung
Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest
…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.
The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.
If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.
The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different from a firm's... the demand for food isn't elastic
The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.
Happiness is free like the air we all breathe
Focus on the things that your dream is demanding from you
When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.
Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.
I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start
With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.
How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.
...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank
...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.
Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.
Thankfully, God has shown us that hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love.
What is your hands to make a difference in the world?
Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.
The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty
The boat from India was a crowded place
When you know who you are, you know what to do.
It is character that communicates most eloquently.
All you need is the will and the skill
It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
Negative emotional states are a breeding ground for mistakes.
