I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

I am who I am. There’s no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn’t concern me. Maybe that’s the sexy part.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.