In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

She walks in beauty.

The streets are a poor kid’s PlayStation™

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Most of the things are either not communicable through human expression or they're top secret. Also I'm working on being a better person, and becoming more disciplined.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.