Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

Falling so madly in love with you is a tragedy. Nothing in my world will ever seem so beautiful again.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.