Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

If you are divided from your body you are also divided from the body of the world, which then appears to be other than you or separate from you, rather than the living continuum to which you belong.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

In fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.