Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out your purpose.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
The only thing about a man that is a man. . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president. We're seeing how at least whole swathes of white America are becoming your worst nightmare of eternal Zombie High School. Something like a perfect mix of Groundhog Day and The Moronic Inferno. How can it be that a guy who looks like a bloated cadaver pulled from the Gowanus canal, with some rouge on his cheeks and a sticky Something About Mary wig, is actually applauded by his followers for making fun of how other people look?
My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.
Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer. . . give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. . . . If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.
When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.