“I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it. The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head.”
– T. Westover, “Educated”

“When your mother and father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?”
– J.W.’s father’s answer to the loyalty question of who he wanted to win the war, “Farewell to Manzanar”

“I belong to a nation which cannot forget its past. We do not remember the past in order to brood over it, but in order that we may go on in the certainty that it will not repeat itself.”
– David Ben-Gurion