All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.

an utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email

For every departed glory there is always a new discovery

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.

Perception can be changed

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.