I've got a clear line between work and real life.
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.
Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.
When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.
It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.
People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.
You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.