Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

Anger is a deception. You engage it thinking you'll feel better but ultimately it drills you deeper in the hurt.

The best thing that I can teach you is to be compassionate and kind to all.

We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as 'Fat Man and Little Boy.') And a...

Not that I lack confidence in the outcome, Ferrin said, but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

A 24,000-year sequence recorded in a marine core from the Santa Barbara Basin, off the coast of California, exhibits the highest peak in biomass burning precisely at the onset of the Younger Dryas. .....

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.

Helping others is the oxygen of paradise.

It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; then he put both arms around her and pulled her against him. His lips softened. She could feel the ra...

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an abs...