Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Why have a cake if I can't eat it?

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.