America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.'
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.
I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
