Everything took on the color of blood.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

There's been intelligence that terrorists would look to programs such as the visa waiver program to exploit.

Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.

Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand.

I am not going to tell people what I don't believe.