conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

You know nothing about me." "I know your soul. Everything else is an ornament.

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

Too many people die in our world today because, they don’t eat well, rest well, play well and live well.

We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.