Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth.

A mother's love is the morning sunshine that always enlightens our way.

I just want your body, Sheeba, I don't want your brains.

The substantive difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is not really that great.

I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

God gives all God asks all

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier.

Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.