Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

Discouragement does not come to passive and indifferent people who lack initiative

Be careful that the cost of weighing the purchase of an object does not exceed its intrinsic value.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

When nobody around you seems to measure up it's time to check your yardstick.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.