Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.

Acceptance is the letter sealed within the envelope of inner peace. - Charmainism

Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.