The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.