Drae Wright

“History is subject to geology.”
― Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History

“...if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all.”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“Greek philosophers knew then that governments could warp men, just as men can warp governments. "People are the same everywhere, only governments try to make them different." Who was it who had said that? It could have been Socrates, but it wasn't. We recalled the engineering student in northern Iraq who had.”
― McGregor Smith Jr., Thank you, Marco Polo: The Story of the First Around-the-World Trailer Caravan

“I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel