And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
Only the insane equate pain with success.
Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.
I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.
When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.
Save myself from death is that it?! Is that why I've come here?! I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death!
Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, somedon't ever want to.
It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works now, and it's heart-breaking to see people make the same mistakes. They're looking at a complicated world, but they just keep blaming immigrants, and it's really disturbing that people haven't got past that.
It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.
While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.