I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?
restraint equals indulgence
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
The world laughs at another man's pain.
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense. ". . . "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less. ""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.
I think that different things sell in different countries.
To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.