As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.