Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

There is madness in the mind.

Live not for others, but for your own self.

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

If success is my drug then I've been on a chronic overdose all my life.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I just think the American people had better understand what's going on. This is a bunch of scumbags. That's what [Russians] are!

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.