The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

The light radiates from a divine soul.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

Without delayed gratification, there is no persistence.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

Positive thinking is the most powerful thing in the world.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.