The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Robert Jay Lifton

The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

Danny Wallace

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Richard Whately

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Neil Gaiman

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A prince is venison in heaven.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Raymond Chandler

All things grow with time -- except grief.

Yiddish Proverb

Not under man but under God and law.non sub homine sed sub deo et lege, The quotation frames the entry to the Harvard Law Library.

Henry de Bracton

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Jamie Foxx