However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.

I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.