As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.
Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.
As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
There is more that unites us than divides us.