There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.
My goal was to try and kind of be our generation's Marty McFly. That was what my all-time goal was.
Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.
The suspension of allowances was temporary and was to be reviewed periodically. It was reviewed in the appropriate time after our oil revenue improved.
Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
