"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."

"Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene."

"Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men."

"Someone has to stand up for wimps."

"A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast."

"As algorithms become more advanced, a fundamental transformation of human capability, if we can align its goals with humanity."

"It is a humble truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice."

"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."