Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.