The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Society is unity in diversity.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

When I near the end of a book, it feels as if the entire universe meets me more than halfway and supports me. The whole world seems to shimmer when I find the words. My mind quiets.

We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.