The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed
Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.
The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.
At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
You want your coach's blessing.