Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable.

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

.. Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real.

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe

Happy the Dragon was not so happy.