The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.
We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.
Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.
Everybody's got their phone up and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
Reggie Lampert: I'm in the book. Peter Joshua: Are you? Reggie Lampert: Charles is. Peter Joshua: Is there only one Charles Lampert? Reggie Lampert: Lord I hope so!
Erik Lehnsherr: Excuse me, I'm Erik Lehnsherr. Professor Charles Xavier: Charles Xavier. Logan: Go fuck yourself.
Hank McCoy: The power's back on. [Charles has communicated with his older self] Charles Xavier: Yes. Yes, it is.
