If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to read more

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find consistency.

He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find consistency.

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious read more

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

It would be pointless. We have only three trains (between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.), and they arrive roughly every read more

It would be pointless. We have only three trains (between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.), and they arrive roughly every 30 minutes. If PATH ran every six minutes, nobody from Metro-North would be getting on them.

NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it read more

NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions … as well as providing training.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external read more

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

I remember baseball cards I collected of Greg when I was in Little League. Now, to be in the same read more

I remember baseball cards I collected of Greg when I was in Little League. Now, to be in the same locker room and be catching him in a big league game is quite an honor -- and an accomplishment to have made it this far.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the read more

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.