It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die

I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.

Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

O Allah, You know that the only thing I want in this life Is to be obedient to Your command. Even the living sight of my eyes Is service at your court

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.