I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

I don't know what it is about the food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?