It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!

I didn't actually know what regret tasted like—but I imagined if it did have a flavor, it would be lutefisk.

The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.