I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.
It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like. . . it's really terrible.
Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it.
i change by not changing at all
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.
When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time. . . The human is that being in whom the Universe activates, reflects upon, and celebrates itself in conscious self-awareness.
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.