Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

You can go as far as you believe it, but through prayer you can exceed it.

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.

No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand?And after I am gone Madge Toxley, if you try to make them yours, then you will live to regret it.

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.