Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
We all want to inspire! As we go on our life's journey, some people inspire us and in turn, we would like to do something to inspire other people.
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.