You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.

An ethic that emphasizes relationship and community can be concerned with protecting the individual's interests, but always with an eye to trying to reconcile those interests with those of others. An ethic emphasizing rights and autonomy should be concerned with promoting enough community to foster a motivating concern for everyone's rights, not just one's own.

You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.