The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential...
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.