One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

The prophecy has come true! You put the sea salt in the soup...You are the one!

Discouragement is the illegitimate child of false expectations! Loyd Ogilive

With great inspiration, every man can reach their highest potential.

We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

Approachability is a crucial way of being that empowers you with an extraordinary edge to make a great first impression, invite interaction, build rapport, and win friends.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

What's a victory when its hollow?

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.