Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
Every day I get more and more honest.
When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.
The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.