The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.

When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.

Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!