the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

Set an example for others to do better.

Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I never give up on things.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.