President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Read. Learn. Write. Travel.

Free-will doesn't include shit-happens, unless that's the goal of one's intention.

Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.