The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.