You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

Events become feelings, feelings become events

I said to my parents that I don't even know if there should be an Israel. And they were just so upset and hurt.

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.

Always focus on the outcome of a desired act.

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.