When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.
There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.
I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.
Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
She went in the pool," she finished for me. "Ohmigod. She was killed while tweeting. It was Twittercide!
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.
Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.
Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.
