We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.
Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
My business is the analytical framework.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G. K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade
If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live.
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 911 attacks on America. His answer. . . "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.
I'm glad I'm inspiring somebody.