It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.