If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Not everything that is legal is reputable.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.