Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door and what we do with our lives after we do is up to us.

Once a word has been allowed to escape it cannot be recalled.

O Holy Spirit descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Thus happiness depends as nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.

I read for interest and enjoyment and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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