My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.