Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister mom and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state Illinois.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state and all men of our time are in such a state.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.