As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor

Important decisions that will affect a nation’s fate or humanity’s fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

No one today knows what is indecent.

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.