Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.