Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.
Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.