Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

drenching his shirt with saltwater

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working kind of hours.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.