Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.