Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.

Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

Don't be cool. Like everything.

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

Pearl of great price.

My dad was an English professor.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.