There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

We can change our rewards. It just takes a shift in out thought patterns and being gentle and patient with ourselves.

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.

Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.

Command any idea to clothe itself in form.

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.