That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be. ' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.
I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
We all do better, when we all do better.
Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
I do not live in the world of sobriety.
If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.
Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced.