Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his...

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray...

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself...

Politicians now are so scripted, they all are. Doesn’t matter what their political views. Everyone has a script. Everyone is quaffed to the nine’s.

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the...

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don’t prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.

So my dad raised me, and he’s a huge football fan.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the...

This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good...

I’m a little bit to the left of things anyway.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

Most journalists now believe that a person’s privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can’t be too big of a surprise.

Genius – To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

God the Father bestows upon all, existence; and participation in Christ, in respect of His being the word of reason, renders them rational beings.

Here is the real domino theory – gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel’s uniform, it tells you something.

Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.

Constantly there’s a credibility issue; you’re judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren’t credible. It’s a battle you’ll always fight if you’re on TV and a female.

I can’t tell people what flag to fly.

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don’t bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It’s...

But even if it were the case that the natural laws had nolonger any secret for us, we could still know the situation approximately.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it’s life in the NFL.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn’t everybody’s daily life. That is why I started.

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

But here’s my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don’t wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it...

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.