Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

This book is a very enjoyable read - I read it in a weekend. Eveline Maedel

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point

Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.