Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

Seek Truth, for it is your destiny!

It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!

There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.

someone like Grace. Someone exactly like Grace, with her Ted Bundy rantsand her calming presence and—hello, irony.

Any moment which is not captured is loss in events of time.

She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space or on the surface of the ocean, just the two of them alone.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

I am smaller in size compared to everyone else. But my dreams are bigger than everyone else.