The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the earth by ridiculous threads, but they are threads of iron and they are not easily broken.

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I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Kindness is not an act, it's a lifestyle.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)

I don't really enjoy cardio, but I find activities like cranking up the music and dancing around my house keep me energized and feeling good.

I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.