Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

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.

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.

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.

Leaning forward he placed his lips over hers. She told herself he was breathing life into her, but the truth was he'd always been sucking it out, slowly, one breath at a time. - From ENGRAVED

Eyes as dark as her heart and as empty as her soul

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.