This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
I believe that life is about doing. It's about changing. It's about transitioning. I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Live or die, sink or swim.
I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).