Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.