My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.
The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.
The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.
I grieve for every death.
Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.
The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand.
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.