To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.
In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.
I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.
The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry.
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.
My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.
I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.
Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust. It's not oversharing, it's not purging, it's not indiscriminate disclosure, and it's not celebrity-style social media information dumps. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them.
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.