We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

My childhood was appalling.