If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

Maybe you should just take it off up in my room and I can help you get dry.” He leaned in, his full lips right on my ear. “Or make you wetter.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.