History can be rewritten, but at what cost?

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...

Action is traction.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.