how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?