[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with real ability, wonderful people many of them, but the typical sequence is that in the course of organization l...
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them ‘the covenant with Noah’ and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
The guards had asked the Doctor to please wait in the hallway until Mr McCavity had time to see him. So it seemed only polite, the Doctor thought, to wait until they had gone before he wandered off to explore the house.
Al he knew was that he'd never met anyone who caused him to doubt and to hope as much as she did.
If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.
If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.
The Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has been repudiated. Holy feeling had an important place in the life of our Lord. “For the joy that was set before Him” He endured the cross and...
Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.
I have the documents. Documents, proof, evidence, photograph, signature. One day you raise your right hand and you are American. They give you an American Pass port. The United States of America. Somewhere someone has taken my identity and replaced i...
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in ...
We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
There is a light that can only be found on the other side of darkness, there is a peace that can only be found on the other side of struggle, there is a faith that can only be found on the other side of doubt, and there is a healing that can only be ...
The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.
It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.
