Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the moon.. didn't the Democrats whose candidates were elected in the last 3 presidential elections do that?

Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing, "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

There's villainous news abroad.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Veni, Vedi, Visa: I Came. I Saw. I Did a Little Shopping.

Diversity, that is my motto.

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

you're young, you'll get over it.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

EPIPHANY A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.