I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
Travelling expands the mind rarely.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
Just living is not enough. . . one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
I think the impacts of 911 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even within the same community, and likely within the same schools. This variability makes it difficult to offer generalized responses without accompanying caveats.
The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered. . . . This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans.
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
Make an obstacle an opportunity.