Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.

The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...

I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.

The blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind.

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.