China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

The best feeling in the world, is to be able to help someone else other than yourself.

He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything.

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

You don't get old being stupid.

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).