Flattery works like a drug.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Flatter yourself critically.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

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.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Viewers all over the world, my prayer partners, whatever situation you are in, be delivered in the mighty name of Jesus Christ! Those who wait upon the LORD shall be delivered!

I believe a healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the nation.