If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.