Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
I count only the hours that are serene.
All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.
You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture of images. People are used to seeing stories that way. They understand looking at pictures.
Be who you are, nothing more. . . nothing less.
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.