Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place

EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive

What is left when honor is lost

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met

“Don’t tug on that…you never know what it might be attatched to

To be willing to die for an ideal is to set a rather high price on conjecture

To produce things and to rear them,To produce, but not to take possession of them,To act, but not to rely on one’s own ability,To lead them, but not to master them -This is called profound and secret virtue