Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him for that will never be necessary.

Time wounds all heels.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.