In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon

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.

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

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.

Some seek only the appearance of justice and virtues. Some seek real justice and virtues. Some others are too lazy to search at all.

I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.

My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional.

If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don't need angels!

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

Love is like smiling, it never fades and is contagious.