An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

And with a frenzied,  frightened,  anxious heart,  she tumbled headfirst into the life she was destined to live.- Future

If you're in 'HELL', you're in a bank.If you're in 'HEAVEN', you're on the other side of the counter.Signed....A Goldman Sachs Representative

Tyrants have only one problem in life.They simply just wanna rule everything.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

He runs a very tightly knit ship

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.