Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

History is the best guide to the future.

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust, ' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

The promotion and prosperity of any country will only happen after when Jesus Christ comes into the land

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

You can’t be a big dreamer if you don’t where you are going. You can’t know where you are going unless you first know where you are.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.

Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

Everything is energy. Thought is energy and thoughts are real things.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.