Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.
