It's the story that counts.

It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.

The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

I don't know how to be anything but myself.