It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
No, the czar did not want us in the schools.
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.
The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.
