Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.