Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I cannot live without books.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.