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

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.

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

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

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

You never know how people are going to respond.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.