Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
For whatever you live is life.
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.
You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.