There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.
Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.
Atheists are not Americans.
I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.
We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner. . . in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.
From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.
Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.
My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.