Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet.

Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

There could never really be justice on stolen land.

It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!