Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.