We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.

Ideology makes people stupid.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.