Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.

The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo- partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men, luck, that of the people.

I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.

La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile, Et dont l'autre est tenu par un grand imbecile.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

Good taste is boundless, while bad taste knows no bounds.

Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.