Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible

There is no reward for wishes.

Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.