The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.