Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.

I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

Women; can't live with em, can't kill em