I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could read more

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

We really get two weeks instead of three (after the dead period). It will be fast and furious.

We really get two weeks instead of three (after the dead period). It will be fast and furious.

A tornado came through here.

A tornado came through here.

Why he went off the road we don't know,

Why he went off the road we don't know,

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

The employment numbers are pretty decent. But the concern I have is that two of the sectors showing the most read more

The employment numbers are pretty decent. But the concern I have is that two of the sectors showing the most strength construction and financial activities are very interest-rate sensitive.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: read more

[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.