When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.
And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
For decades the G. O. P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.
We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please". . . . . . Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist. . . . . . she certainly did not envelop him in her love.
The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time-and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. . . . It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart.