I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.
When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life.
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!
I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.
I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.
I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.
Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.