One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq. They actually headquartered the Iraq Ba'ath Party and...

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we...

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

The amount of money currently in your bank account is a fact. The amount you spend today is a choice. And the way you reconcile both is through clarity.

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own...

Home is where the heart is.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.