"Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced."

“Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.”

“To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.”

“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

“But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.”

“As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?”

“A goal without an action plan is a daydream.”

“Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.”

“We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.”

Source : Charles Taylor (1995). “Philosophical Arguments”, p.230, Harvard University Press