The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.