George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
writing thinking style
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
graduation kindness regret
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
kindness thinking simple
I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.
life hurt confused
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
prayer real believe
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.
kindness regret advice
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
faith religious science
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
substance causes opinion
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
half opinion reason
Docility is the observable half of reason.
nature noble youth
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
dream optimism body
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
peace philosophy harmony
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
elude classic psychological
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
progress may evolution
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.