Joseph Joubert

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.