By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.