I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

John Charles Polanyi

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adlai Stevenson

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Karl Rove

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

LaoTzu

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

David Ogilvy

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

George Will

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

John Balguy

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

Philip Pullman

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G. K. Chesterton