Here I am: My brain is open.
Competence is a great creator of confidence.
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.
I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. . . . There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.
Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.
I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.
We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because we are heavily taxed, and only the king's corporations control this Country, together with mob rule, of the special interests.