History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

We don’t have time, we just have a moment in time.

The Prerequisite of any "Success Story" is the decision to commit in giving up your own soul to the Journey that you are about to start.

Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.