Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious...

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial...

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it'll become a headache.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.

Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly...

Yes, the United States deserves criticism for meddling in other elections, but that doesn't mean that we should give foreign nationals the opportunity to meddle in ours.

Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and either it's working or it isn't working.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School...

Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

When you're responsible for leading a group of young people, you have to be positive. If you're not, you shouldn't be in your job, should you?

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.

I'm really into fashion, and there's this fascination the world over around this idea of the French woman.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools, they represent the values of social order and of individual competitive...