I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!
I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.
Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way.
O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.
I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.
A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words. Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.
No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real.
The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.