We are born different to make a difference.

It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.

To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does

I wish Goodreads was also a dating site.

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

I'm not a big fan of the comics competing against each other.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally