The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.