Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy cheerful rhetoric to them but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans human nature and the human future.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future because to live consists inexorably in doing in each individual life making itself.

The prospects for a coherent hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year as the poor waterlogged gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.