I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

Live up to your highest calling on earth.

The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

Nothing Exposes our true self more than how we treat each other in the home.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything