That said the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire threats with threats.

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

The question I've come to think is not what inspires one to change but what inspires one to remain changed.

To some extent Seattle remains a frontier metropolis a place where people can experiment with their lives and change and grow and make things happen.

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice exploitation humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

While the river of life glides along smoothly it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change mature and become more nuanced whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.