Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.
A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.
What is written is more influential than what is said.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.
Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.
. . . Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with. . . I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.