My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
Honest history is the weapon of freedom.
It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
It's the saddest year in movies. We've got "Manchester," "Moonlight," "Chronic," "Jackie". . . it's sad when "American Honey" is the happiest film of the year and it's about runaways aimlessly trying to figure out their lives with no parental figures.
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.