The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done."

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.