When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.
I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
The 'Welfare Reform and Work' Bill does nothing to address low wages, or underemployment, and I haven't even got started on how it undermines the provision of affordable housing.
One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.
I started adapting, and that's how I've been able to stay afloat all these years. It's important to be adaptable.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.
