Amish recognize each others' horse like we do our friends' car.

The Swartzentruber Order is the most conservative on the Amish spectrum. Amish people have differences just like any culture.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Clearly she didn't get out into society nearly enough. Her pulse had no taste in men whatsoever.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.