I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years' ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,signeed the Emancipation Procla...
In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live---his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards. Fame, wealth and knowledge are merel...
The bustle of the hospital was a welcome distraction as I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a dri...
If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, even though he be a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat, he will shout at him to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, he will...
Several years ago I was diagnosed with cancer. It was the most difficult time I have ever faced. I think it was my sense of humor that allowed me to hold onto my sanity. Like many people who have gone through chemotherapy, I lost all of my hair and I...
Mama,that summer,on the way to Klitsemi,my straw hat flew down the mountains.Mama,do you remember,the old straw hat you gave to me ? I lost that hat long ago, it flew to the foggy canyou. Mama,I wonder what happened to that old straw hat which fell d...
I love Halloween. I'm thirty-one, but I still love it. I mean, who doesn't love candy? I still live at home. I don't mind it, except for the dinner table. I said to my parents, I've been sitting in the same seat my whole life. Let me sit at the head...
I didnt like her. We saw her and her husband at parties given by some people we knew who entertained a lot, and at one of the parties, while my wife was off talking to someone in the next room, she told me that her husband was impotent. It wasnt that...
OF WHAT USE is a college training? We who have had it seldom hear the question raisedwe might be a little nonplussed to answer it offhand. A certain amount of meditation has brought me to this as the pithiest reply which I myself can give: The best c...
It seemed like every time I looked at my girlfriend Cindy she was missing another tooth. Oh Cindy, I said, and we hugged and cried, and then we went to her dentist and ex-husband, Dr. Martin Peterborough. My Cindy had taken up drinking. She was a bad...
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do. You know that the function of statistics has been ingeniously described as being the refutation of other statistics. Well, a philosopher can always contra...
We need to feel more to understand others We need to love more to be loved back We need to cry more to cleanse ourselves We need to laugh more to enjoy ourselves We need to establish the values of honesty and fairness when interacting with people We...
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new Nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to theproposition that all men are created equal. Now, we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that Nation, or...
I SET apart a day for wandering; I heard the woodlands ring, The hidden white-throat sing, And the harmonic West, Beyond a far hill-crest, Touch its Aeolian string. Remote from all the brawl and bruit of men, The iron tongue of Trade, I followed the...
At age eighteen, I left my home in Brooklyn, New York, and went off to study history at Leeds University in Yorkshire, England. It was an exciting but stressful time in my life, for while trying to adjust to the novelty of unfamiliar surroundings, I...
