As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that ou...
[I]f Modi toast, it will in one sense be a tremendous pity. In his way, he represents a third generation in cricket's governance. For a hundred years and more, cricket was run by administrators, who essentially maintained the game without going out o...
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are ...
Dr. Peter Venkman: Alice, I'm going to ask you a couple of standard questions, okay? Have you or any of your family been diagnosed schizophrenic? Mentally incompetent? Librarian Alice: My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome. Dr. Peter Venkman: I'd call...
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...] Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
Tigana, let my memory of you be like a blade in my soul.
Sînt imorală, grozavă, brutală și mă mănâncă pielea, cu ce te pot servi?
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
