No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

When we were kids and believed that the game was not fair, we stopped playing. Well, the game of governance is not fair, so we need to stop playing along.

Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages.

Not to mention, "Magnus noted, "that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off".

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.