People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?

Rain, rain, rain. Like a benediction from some vast inscrutable hand, long withheld, finally given. The blessed, wonderful rain. For rain meant grass, and grass was life.

If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

Every day is the start of something beautiful.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.