Peggy Noonan

"Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. "

"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. "

"I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. "

"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. "

"You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, 'That world is gone.' "