The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.