Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.