The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.
Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It's a good thing for the United States. It's a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it's only good so long as its illegal.
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.
The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.