"The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves — which, as Niketas remarked with a smile — was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love. Baudolino

Businesses have changed when the public came to expect and require different behavior, to reward businesses for behavior that the public wanted, and to make things difficult for businesses practising behaviors that the public didn't want. I predict that in the future, just as in the past, changes in public attitudes will be essential for changes in businesses' environmental practices. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. A Journal of Democracy