Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.