Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.