Drae Wright

“I who have copied down this story, or more accurately fantasy, do not credit the details of the story, or fantasy. Some things in it are devilish lies, and some are poetical figments; some seem possible and others not; some are for the enjoyment of idiots.”
― Thomas Cahill

“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

“Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act.”
― Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

“Meekness, then, was not weakness but relying fully on Gods power as Moses had.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel