Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Photo of POTUS mtg w speechwriters Cody Keenan and Jon Favreau today.

Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.