Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

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.

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.'

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

Are you okay? You seem ...soggy.""Soggy?""Yes." Heather nodded. "Like you're a depressed spaghetti noodle or something.

Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

You can never rise above the light you look up to.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.