You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.