Love is an act of endless forgiveness

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them.

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.

If your intention is to give, you will not be concerned with how your actions are perceived.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.