I once overheard someone telling someone else "Don't confuse kindness with something else." Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Romance is good, you know

The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart is.

It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater.

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.