Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

[On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born.

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?

I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.