Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
I try and avoid cardio because it makes me lose a lot of weight. Instead, I do resistance training, model fit workouts, and ballet.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.
This whole mall is run by women anyway. All the cashiers are women. Everyone in the restaurants are women.
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.