Propaganda demands endless repetition, not just of the same ideas, but in the same words.
Convictions are mental furniture: they provide comfortable seating and rarely move.
Talent, to a man who has it, is like water to a fish. It surrounds him, and he sees only his effort to employ it.
Art experts concern themselves with provenance because they have no other way to spot a fake.
The evil, or good, that men do on a colossal scale lives after them; the rest is interred with their bones.
The fault is not in our phones, but in ourselves.
To wish for what another has can be innocent, even salutary; what eats away the soul is the wish that he not have it.
The best, and the worst, are never in it for the money.
What do women want? Men who need not be told what women want.
To improve discourse on social media, I am authoritatively informed, the enlightened must be kinder, more patient, and less patronizing with the unwashed.