Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure. We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.
If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe across the world for a barrage of these things, then the political climate is revolutionized here. And maybe the [Donald] Trump speech will look like a precursor to a climate that we're all about to walk into.
Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I. Q. , a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.
I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth. . .
Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.