... once you start demonizing groups of people, when you make them the other, you can justify doing just about anything you want to the, can't you? Look at history if you don't believe me.

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.

You know who you are. You have always been other.

I am a cypher...I carry no weight, no worth, no influence. I represent nothing. I do not exist.

...and all the stars flowered in the sky.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

The hardest thing is to make this little space for yourself where you can think and not get inundated with other stuff coming in.

I told (God) I'd take every opportunity to speak for the kids who can't speak.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.

How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.