Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.