“Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.”

No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for the light to shine through

Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.

Push me past my limit all you want. It’s territory I know well.

Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person.

Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.

I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.

Call me patch. I mean it. Call me.

Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.

I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.