Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.

All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!

...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Mitt Romney is not going to run for president. Mitt said it's time for fresh faces. So that's good news for Bruce Jenner.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

That which He has not assumed He has not healed.

Actions are destiny's pen.

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.