A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.