America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

Why do yo keep doing this?""Because I've wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That's why.

It is hard to dislike someone you know if that person is someone you value.

Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.