Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.