Father Jenkins, your paradox, like ours, is embracing an institution crafted by other people and taking it as your own, conforming its identity to your individuality, and determining your unique way to be a powerful means for good in this country and the world.

I appreciate and respect the approach [Jenkins] is taking with this, especially his effort to include as many people as possible in the discussion. That's extremely respectful of us, as students in particular.

It's clear that people are taking their cues from the president--either embracing his leadership or moving away from it.

Toyota wound up with this paradox. They're selling a car meant for young people to older people. It's not where they wanted to be.

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.

All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.