Nicholas Dawidoff Quotes

“Berg paid his way with stories.”

“Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.”

“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures”

“What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?”

“We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.”

“When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.”

“Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.”

“Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.”

“In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.”

“Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.”