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

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.