Long term interest of the nation should be foremost.
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
In mathematics there are no true controversies.
I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it.
I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.