Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.

In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.