Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
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Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.
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People need religion. It’s a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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Progress of a marriage: 'There was a time when you couldn't...
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing they are as clever as you.
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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.
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If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
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And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage- coach, that it is often a ...
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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