I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.
It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.
A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.
Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.
If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.
If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.
To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.
And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.
Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous.
It doesn't matter where you come from or who you think you are, we're all human beings with beating hearts.