Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

We live in an anaesthetized society.

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!