"Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will."

"It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job."

"The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power."

"The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future."

"A humble soul understands that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"It is a humble truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"If there is no God, everything is permitted."