The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

Those who live in gratitude start their day by setting their intentions and the direction they want to move in each day.

Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood.

It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

Am I worried? Sure, I'm worried. When it comes to the Olympics, it can't be a predictable finish.

I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.