"Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees."

“The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.”

“Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.”

“Responsibility is the ability to respond.”

“I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.”

“But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.”

“Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.”

Source : "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

“I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on to us by our ancestors in light of our experiences, and the best a philosopher can do is to learn as much about what has been discovered in various empirical fields, and use it to try to craft an improved synthesis.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“A taste of honey is worse than none at all.”

Source : "Song: 'I Second That Emotion'". 1967.