I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.
I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.
There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….
I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.
Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.
Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.