A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.

In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?