Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Society becomes how you behave.

impossible is not a word

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

Anybody's position on an issue, anything they've said about an issue, and any way they've voted on an issue is fair game. You have every right to question that and go after it aggressively.

Why be timid? Death is coming.

Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.