The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry, ' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

A week is a long time in the life of a child.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

It's been a long time since NATO was created, and I also think Donald Trump has spoken very wisely about the need to rethink the mission of NATO.

Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.