Some of these people make my skin crawl.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.