The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

There is a point where the universe can deliver you from the verge of regret. I know your love for me will take you there.

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.