Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded.Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.”You both sound like my mother, ” I said.Shut up!” they both said in union.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.