The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.
A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.
It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.
Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, , July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
