The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.