It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live.

A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time

Compassion brings us closer to each other.

I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.

The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

I guess I crave stability.

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid, and it's on full display now, which I think ultimately has the potential to be a good thing.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.