Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!

Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?

As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

Where there is little risk, there is little reward.

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.

All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration.