A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.

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

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

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

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.