From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

Many a good man I have seen go under.