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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.