“Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.”

“..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.”

“The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)”

“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”

“To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction.”

“Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?”