maturation

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore _ yes, I do well.

I was young enough to be an optimist.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, "I changed my mind.

The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.