Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant’s heart, ' I thought.

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

I cannot believe that [Donald Trump] is actually in the debates.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

We need to encourage our kids to express their feelings. We need to help them find their voice.