In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

People don't really think other people are the same.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.