Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is pote...
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
Mr. X: Well Henry, what do you know? Henry Spencer: Oh, I don't know much of anything.
Mary X: You wouldn't mind marrying me, would you Henry? Henry Spencer: Well... No.
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.
The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.
Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.
So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
