When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.