The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.
A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.
Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.
We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.