The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.