Nobody picks on a strong man.

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We read more

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.

The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living read more

The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would read more

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging read more

In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and read more

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction

This relationship is based on a firm belief in shared values and in principles that we defend and that we read more

This relationship is based on a firm belief in shared values and in principles that we defend and that we proclaim and that we assume.