Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

When I was eight years old I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

In short it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57 000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

The political object is the goal war is the means of reaching it and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.