If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

Thomas Hood

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Nate Silver

If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X Y Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe

For too much rest becomes a pain.

Homer

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

Jonathan Kozol

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Tallulah Bankhead

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Henny Youngman

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Leo Tolstoy

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

Stanley Baldwin

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Sigmund Freud