“Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts children into social artifacts called citiz...”

“Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.”

“The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.”

“The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common language. We all have, to some extent, a complex, sometimes adv...”

“Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.”

“Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.”

“Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as collective memory--part of the same family of spurious notions as collective guilt. But there is collective instruction....What is called collective mem...”

“Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the crimes committed by their own side or recollect them in s...”

“Blood memory is described as our ancestral (genetic) connection to our language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling that we experience when we are near these things.”

“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father, the relation to my neighbors that a lawn implied; it was the lawns rel...”

“We having so much fun together!! 'through nature..through people..through religion...through culture..through friendship...we manage to learn something that lead to a better relationship among huma...”