We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.