History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.

Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.

Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against himself.

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.

Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.

One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

All blood runs red.

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

It's fun to be surrounded by people that you love.

Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.