You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.
I suppose I knew I was gay at age 11 or so.
I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.
I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.
In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.
Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.
Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling.
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.
As an experience, madness is terrific. . . and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.