On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

those who have loved are those that have found God

Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.