Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.
To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
The Establishment center. . . has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.