“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal”

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?

Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

By better cars on longer credit terms.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship

But a newspaper can always print a retraction.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright,

But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.

Lava bread makes you passionate.

Daesh members wear shoes. Does this mean everybody who wears shoes is Daesh?