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.

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.

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.