Real change begins with ridding Washington of corruption, of which there's plenty going around.
Where's the need of singing now?
Life is the game that must be played.
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
Your Dollar is your only Word, The wrath of it your only fear. You build it altars tall enough To make you see, but your are blind; You cannot leave it long enough To look before you or behind.
I shall have more to say when I am dead.
We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money. . . but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth. . . In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.