The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.
Donald Trump ran for office complaining that at $19 trillion, the US debt was completely out of control, and yet what he's planning to do is throw trillions of dollars more onto that debt. If the proposed tax plan cuts upon the wealthiest Americans is enacted, 10 years from now America's debt will be over $30 trillion. And so, he's contradicting, his own stated positions. And that's because, to Donald, none of this is about policy. It's not about sound economics. It's about greed and the glorification of the great leader.
The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.