I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.