While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.