Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.

Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.

You will find the limit of strength with every new situation.

This guy is funny. But is he safe? And how much is that worth when the world itself has ceased to exist?

What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so much innocent pleasure.

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.