Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

I wanted fans to know that I'm human and not perfect.

Duality is always secretly unity.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

I wouldn't throw all spitballs. I'd go maybe two or three innings without throwing a spitter, but I always had them looking for it.

People feel like they grew up with me.

He brings the offensive game of lacrosse to a more cerebral level.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

The goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? Don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay.

You are the person you have been waiting for.

The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.

Be silent, only the hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable.

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

I am proud of myself.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.