The reality is that moments of impact, which are your new reality, change without notice, and you have to be alert to theirunderlying patterns of change.

Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times.

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

No triumph without a try.

I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you’re going to be. — It puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.