I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.