The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.
You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.
My best life advice:Take the high road. No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road. You will never regret it.
I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. . . . I would hold a door for anyone. . . . It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.
Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.
In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.
Hope is a very unruly emotion.