The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you.

Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.