Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.