You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

One does what one is

No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see within.

When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul.

The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!

Sometimes you lose some friends and you get new ones.

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.