Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

It is interesting that we know how the world and the planetary systems work, but we don’t know how we think and why we are conscious.

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

My secret is I cannot go to bed, I cannot sleep, if my bed is not made before I go to bed. I can leave it unmade in the morning, but I have to remake it before I get into it to sleep.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.