Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

We are the people are parents warned us against.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

All that is popular is not always right. All that is right is also not always popular. Somewhere in between, lies all that is real!

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

First you must have the images, then come the words.