Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.