Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the r...
What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affec...
Lowe has broken from the Christianity of his parents, a faith that now seems hopelessly out of date. The meek shall no longer inherit the earth; the go-getters will get it and everything that goes with it. The Christ who went among the poor, the sick...
If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing app...
How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?
happy is the nation without a history
There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.
How can you hide from what never goes away?
Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
A blanket could be used as a flag, for a sleepy nation.
The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.
Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.
If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.
