Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Politics is motion." John Sears

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

Now even reformers needed political machines.

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Finding ways to organize work in which people are not locked into unequal power relationships is very important. Having said that, it's not easily done, and it's complicated.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.