A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.