Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.

It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

I feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

I support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause it’s cute.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.