Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

So how's the putrid pile of caca doing?

A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.

I was born 10 years old.

Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.

One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

Happiness for me is when my kids are good and when my family is whole.

I never did anything dishonest.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.