In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.