Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Eye can only see something ifidea about it has been in mind.

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

I'm really open to everything.

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience