This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Kindness bestowed is embraced with an open heart and welcoming spirit, becoming a re gifted acknowledgement of loving gratitude~Bluenscottish

we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.