The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
The FBI found Hillary Clinton to be extremely careless with classified information on her non-secured private e-mail server. While secretary of state. In addition to all we've been talking about, we're learning that Clinton actually lectured her own staff about the importance of cyber security back in 2010, telling them to do one thing while she herself was doing another thing.
Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of us, equally. No one can say how it will turn out down here. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense a stirring of the breeze.
Practice radical humility. " He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.
To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.
There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.