The greatest accomplishment of a bartender lies in his ability to exactly suit his customer. . .
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.
To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident. . . themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
Michelle Obama is a powerful example of someone who has learned how to align her actions with her values, manage boundaries across domains of life, and embrace change courageously.
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.