Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
You never get every job you want.
Under Article II, all executive power is vested in one president of the United States. The regulatory state is Congress's efforts to undermine the president's authority. And my hope is we will see a president use that constitutional authority to rein in the uncontrollable, unelected bureaucrats and to rescind regulations.
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.