Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
You can't plan anything, right? You can try.
Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.
We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.
Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.
Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load. " And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by. Amazing songs. So that the slaves, just knowing that he, she, did not have the right legally to walk within one inch away from where the slave owner dictated, and yet the same person, wrote and sang with fervor, "If the lord wants somebody, here am I, send me. " It's amazing.
In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here. " And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.
Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.