But there are times, " said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.