Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

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.

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

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.

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

Who would you be but who you are?

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

What you think means more than anything else in your life.

So... I take it that's the man in your life.

Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

Piracy is almost always a service problem.

People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

I prepare for death by living.

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.