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

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.

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."

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.

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

There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

Remember, what goes around comes around, if you give out venom, sooner or later it will come back to poison you

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked."I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, " I replied.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.