If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

The distance between two minds is understanding.

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

‎"Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.