It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Achievements must be highlights and not forgotten. So you always will have to rely in something on your frustrations.

Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

under the lighthouse there's always darkness

Whatever we focus on determines what we become.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.'

Maybe I'm corny, but I'm a big believer in second chances.

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.