Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.
In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.
The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.
The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.
In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!