You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.