People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

You don't need directions, just point yourself to the top and go!

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.