It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent.

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´.

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.