Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Was Continuing My Life When I Wanted To Die.

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

I will totally accept the results [of Election 2016] if I win.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

You get to do what you want to do – if that’s what you want to do.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

I will never make my family perfect, but I will make it better everyday.