Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Giving birth, for me, was like emerging from a car crash to find myself inexplicably, madly in love with Vladimir Putin.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.

The freedom is really free only happened in this life: after life is pseudo freedom

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.