Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

If you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed.

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Work is making a living out of being bored.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

A poor man fear for money works against him.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.