The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...] Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
Tigana, let my memory of you be like a blade in my soul.
Sînt imorală, grozavă, brutală și mă mănâncă pielea, cu ce te pot servi?
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.
The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.
