No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.