Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.