Men are a luxury, not a necessity.
You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.
I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.
I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.
The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.
Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington. " And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.
In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves. . . when the truth is that there shouldn't be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us.
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.