a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward...just patience and faith.

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.

the nights would be orphaned without the sound of crickets chirping.

I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.