Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.