Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Politics is motion." John Sears

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

Now even reformers needed political machines.

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

Let us then, be up and doing.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.