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

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.

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.

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

Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened

Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

Only the present moment contains life.

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.