When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.
The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy. '
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on. '
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.
A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.
I became fascinated with recording in an open room.