Recent Thoughts

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

Stephen Ambrose

Our happiness usually is conditioned by the kind of home, job, car, clothes, etc., we have, which in a way makes us slaves to matter.

Gary Wright

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

Richard Neal

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Herman Melville

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Tennessee Williams

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

Gustav Mahler

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Louis Leakey

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Desiderius Erasmus

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Barney Frank

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Jeanette Winterson

When you find him

Shakespeare

A reminder to keep your chin up

Shakespeare

DNA wasn't as beat orientated as other bands. It's more like thrash metal music than rock music- it was very fast and the songs were very short.

Ikue Mori

I've been very honest rather than allowing it to come here and meet a veto, part of it or all of it, when it's fundamentally a good bill.

Christine Gregoire

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Joe E. Lewis

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Jules Renard

My songs are like my kids.

Billy Joel

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

Floyd Abrams

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Thomas Fuller

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Samuel Butler