I believe that in every man there is a preponderant potential for good. I believe that for all living and for each life there is a purpose which is God's, and that every human being is possessed of the reason...
“We are all at the mercy of a falling tile,” Julius Caesar reminds us in Thornton Wilder’s Ides of March. None of us knows at what hour something we may love may suffer some terrible blow by a force we...
Although I am now in old age and perhaps at its last moments, I accept life as it is for worse as for better—accept it, love it, rejoice in it. I feel no anticipated regret, let alone present rebellion at...
At first I believed what I was taught: that the world steadily was becoming a better and better place, that progress was the law of life. Education and religion were the engines of improvement. When people became better educated and...
Ever since my father died when I was a freshman in college, I’ve had responsibilities thrown at me. Over the years, I have come to believe that we are sent into this world as trusties, for the lack of a...
