I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow. - E.B. White

In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence.

Both tend to speak of national security as though it were still capable of being dissociated from universal well-being; in fact, sometimes in these political addresses it sounds as though this nation, or any nation, through force of character or force of arms, could damn well rise above planetary considerations, as though we were greater than our environment, as though the national verve somehow transcended the natural world.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.