...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government.

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.

Everyone is being affected, but there is only a group of us awake on the path who are consciously moving beyond the fifth dimension.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you know of your own abilities, you may be confusing applause with achievement.

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.