Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.