As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents...
I like that lady – Sarah Palin. She’s great. I like the cut of her jib.
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.
This book is dedicated to the people of America – strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.
To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally – otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.
If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.
Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
There are no inevitabilities in history.
It takes less than a decade for today’s luxury to become a universal necessity.
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
You know you’re an Arizona native when you have to look up “mass transit” in the dictionary.
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
Your future is not determined by the conditions around you. It is determined by your faith, your choices, and your efforts.
Every time we are obedient to the words of the prophets and apostles we reap great blessings. We receive more blessings than we can understand at the time, and we continue to receive blessings long after our initial decision to be obedient.
When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ.
We must be careful that we don’t resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature.