She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.

Be careful of those who work so hard to turn you into a victim of the societal pressure they have fallen victims of.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.