She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.
It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.
For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.
Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.