Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Three turns should do it.

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.