Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

There's really no point in letting failure get the best of you. Better to just let it go and move on.

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.