The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

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.

Life is worth living with fearless heart.

In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.

A hungry man is an angry one.

I want a big church wedding.

A country song is a song about life.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes.