His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.” ~Haley James Scott

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...

It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

All we really want to do is dance.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.