I have made twice mistake in my whole life

to want any woman so badly was unwise, let alone his enemy's daughter." An Artful Seduction

Agape is the concrete commitment to the flourishing of someone or something outside of oneself. Even and perhaps especially when that flourishing, hence the joy, is threatened.

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.