Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

A life of devotion to one's passion gives meaning to life.

Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

Is not the truth the truth?