In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.