Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.
Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.
In fact, the U. S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
The U. S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.
When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.
I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts. ' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.