Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.
But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.
Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
