While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Under the leadership of this President the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.

As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four maybe five nights a week.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home kill your parents that's where it's really at.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class apart from redneck which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.