Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.
We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.