If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.
I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect. "
There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.