When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.

Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

A difficulty for every solution.

Whatever be our individual, social or other interests, we should not forget that we have only one cosmic home, Earth.

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.