Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

For thy love, I feel ineffable joy.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

I'm pretty normal. Tthe type of day I love is just like everybody else's. I'm like everybody else.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Suffering = Pain x Resistance

I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong.

You can never get ahead by trying to get even.