My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, read more

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of read more

Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of very cold weather.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and read more

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of read more

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.

We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and read more

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

The Tigers have built a much stronger military machine in the four years of the ceasefire. If the intensity of read more

The Tigers have built a much stronger military machine in the four years of the ceasefire. If the intensity of the war increases, there is no doubt they have developed a capability to strike in Colombo.

We recruited some really good talent, so it's just a matter of those guys coming in, learning the system and read more

We recruited some really good talent, so it's just a matter of those guys coming in, learning the system and playing up to their capabilities. We'll need all of those guys ready to go.

Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into read more

Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into it. If they get you into it, you're in trouble. They play a bumping and pushing style, and if it's not called, your kids try to do it, too. It worked (for them) tonight.