Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

All good things pass away.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

You are in some brown study.

Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.