The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.

It's too easy to be myself with you.

There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.