The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.