President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.

Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

The world is a much more beautiful and incredible place than you think, and each of us has a great deal of power to make it more so.

come humans, fulfill your evolutionary purpose adn build your hound a fire." Oberon

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?