Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Even the continents drift.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

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.