Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.

Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

The customer service representative hung up on me when I asked to talk to a supervisor.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.