I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.
The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.
We must let our hopes be greater than our fears.
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity. . . like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.
I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream.