Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.

We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.

A Patent is a Grant, but Inventorship is a Right

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5:00.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.