Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

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.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

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

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

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.