No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the first action to conquer it.

I knew there was something special between us, knew it as surely as a lyric that belonged in a song. But as with all good songs, I needed time to figure out the melody and chords.

I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.