It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military.

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.

Second we find in our prerevolutionary society definite and indeed very bitter class antagonisms, though these antagonisms seem rather more complicated than the cruder Marxists will allow.

You're nervous around me. I don't bite." He turned his head and swept a gaze over her that went from head to toe and back again. "Unless you like that sort of thing.

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.

As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

What?! I'm not small! It's the world that's too big!!

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.