A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

Surrendering to who you really are and why you are here may very well change the world.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.