Norman Douglas

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.