This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

With hope, we can endure any hardship.

Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics.

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The Republican-controlled House voted to repeal the healthcare bill. If that goes well, they'll see what they can do about this whole 'women voting' thing.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.