“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of thos...”

“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”

“All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”

“Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.”

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“The mediastenographers to power.”

“When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.”

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”

“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, wou...”

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”

“I brought the newspaper close up to my eyes to get a better view of George Pollucci's face, spotlighted like a three-quarter moon against a vague background of brick and black sky. I felt he had so...”