Maximal demand — “How to define our highest spiritual or moral aspirations for human beings, while showing a path to the transformation involved which doesn’t crush, mutilate or deny what is essential to our humanity” (pp. 639–640).

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

We have self centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think our self awareness which is our greatest blessing is also our downfall.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

In my view, targeted lethal force is at its least controversial when it is on its strongest, most traditional legal foundation. The essential mission of the U.S. military is to capture or kill an enemy. Armies have been doing this for thousands of years. As part of a congressionally authorized armed conflict, the foundation is even stronger.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.

He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?

I listen to everything.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn't go down that avenue.

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.