The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Christmas is not only where you find it

The end of my marriage meant the end of fighting for something I believed in: my commitment to God to stay faithfully married until death, no matter the circumstances.

There is a rainbow at the end of the storm.

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.