A finished person is a boring person.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.

Familiarity breeds content.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.