I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

.be happy now, not when..

Blessings never come in pairs misfortunes never come alone.

True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

I don't like to go to strange places.

There is always a right moment to stop something.

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.