How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

I want to see riots! I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people! I want to see this guy!

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

Though very poor, may still be very blest.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.