Amos Bronson Alcott

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.