It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
I've learned. . . That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera. . . . This leads to the paradox that the more people shoot photographs, the less they are capable of deciphering them.
I swim, I do Pilates, I meditate - I think it's about keeping your stress level as low as you can.
I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.