"We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing."

“He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.”

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

“In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.”

“I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.”

“I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.”

Source : "Interview: Jay Michaelson, Author Of God Vs. Gay? The Religious Case For Equality". BYT interview, brightestyoungthings.com. October 21, 2011.

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

“Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.”

“Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads through its surrounding.”