Oh yes, Ed prefers to think he beat himself rather than somebody else beating him. He thanked me for saying that.

My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.