Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.