The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

jealously lives with insecurity!

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.