Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it. . . and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.
Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.
Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.
Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.