You have to be the best you can be with what you have.
[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.
These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.
Even though. . . 911 happened because. . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy. . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.
Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.