When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands of years and still today.
The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
I'd say the vast majority of my interview experiences have been pleasant, better than pleasant. But sometimes there will be people who will size you up. There can be that "rock star" thing where they think it's cool to pull back.
You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a