Public confidence in the media, already low, continues to slip. A poll by USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup found only 36 percent of Americans believe news organizations get the facts straight, compared with 54 ...

“I actually think it’s completely fair for the media to vet Sarah Palin, just as they did for John McCain and Barack Obama and everyone else who’s running for office. You’re running for the second ...

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ...

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.” ...

“Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.” ...

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” ...

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.” ...

“Men who for truth and honor's sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, who dare while others fly... They build a nation's pillars deep And lift them to the sky.” ...

“Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.” ...

“It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in the first place.” ...

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your ...

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