Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.

Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.