There are two kinds of pain: the sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have no patience for useless things.
What’s better than a blank slate in the right hands?
What is the face of a coward? The back of his head as he runs from the battle.
Imagination is its own form of courage.
There’s nothing like a death in the family to separate the wheat from the bull****.
Shake with your right hand, but hold a rock in your left.
It’s so refreshing to work with someone who will throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth.
When the wind’s blowing at gale force, there’s no point in sailing against it.
We honor the dead for giving us the world we inherited. However, we must recognize we are doomed if we allow the dead to govern us.
True leadership is not running away from those who disagree with you, but embracing them.
There is no solace above or below. Only us. Small, solitary, striving, battling one another. I pray to myself, for myself.
Sometimes I think the presidency is the illusion of choice.