No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

The [budget] deficit isn't the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is.

For GOD is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.

You tend to become like that, what you want most. Its up to you to make it happen. Expect the best and work for the best. Dedicate yourself and make your life happen with determination.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

It's time I stopped looking for men and time I start looking for me. Then I'll find the happiness I've always wanted.

I was acting my way through the whole thing.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down strike was just one step short of taking over the factory.

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.