The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.

It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.

[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks!

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.