Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

Each day is a little bit of history

Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.