Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Everything on Twitter is true.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Obamaism is the future of America.

The true Mind is one that exists before and beyond one's delusional, self-centered, attachment-filled mind.

The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it.

Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.