“Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon”

“Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.”

“Politics is motion." John Sears”

“College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.”

“What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?”

“Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.”

“Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, ones paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no kashay-free person other than a Gnani.”

“Lasting harmony between the sexes cannot be achieved through social, psychological, or political reform alone...they are not sufficient in themselves because gender reconciliation entails an inhere...”

“Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social marker...”

“Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the conse...”

“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society running along smoothly in its own rut. The individual is...”

“Confronting discomfort is giving me strength, in a world where perfect strangers can render me powerless.”

“At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.”

“Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.”