Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

A brave girl! And a unique one. The best that I have ever met in my life.

Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.

I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try.

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

Brand new Beretta, can't wait to let it go.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.