Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.

The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I be fully awake in today.

Creating back doors to hack in to secure devices will not only undermine consumer confidence in technology but most importantly empower cyber criminals and totalitarian regimes.

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]