Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

We have to believe that the thought we have is piecing together for us the thing we are thinking of and is actually carrying it closer and closer to us!

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

I have found that the richest people I know are also the nicest.