"The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature."

“I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!”

“My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.”

“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.”

Source : "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), pp. 10-12, July/August 1989; later quoted in Thomas Norman DeWolf "Inheriting the Trade" (Chapter 4: The Great Folks), www.pbs.org. January 2, 2008.

“It certainly made a film writing career for me.”

“Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot of concern about getting embroiled in another Vietnam and ... about sending American troops once again to fight someone else's war.”

“It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

“I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.”

“Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.”