[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

I hate when people are chomping their gum, even though I do it. I hate that.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.