Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two coun

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.

Soulmates don’t choose each other

A life without goals is a bird without wings

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.