Baruch Spinoza

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.