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“It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.”
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“While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.”
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“History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.”
Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
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“Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.”
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“Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age.”
Source : "Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America".
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“Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.”
Source : "The Fantastic Plastic Brain". The Kavli Foundation interview, www.kavlifoundation.org. July 2012. 
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“When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.”
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“The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God's position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life.”
Source : "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 10, September 19, 2006.
