Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.
Oh! how many times we die before death!
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.
The Secret Service hates to complain about something. They're secret by nature. They're not boastful; they don't like to be in the limelight. And therefore, they need middle management, i. e. , a Cabinet-level person, to be their advocate, to Congress, to the White House, to ensure that they have adequate funding.
A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.
One of the downsides of being special is that you feel out of place wherever you go.
Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.