Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling.
As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don't think about it.
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
I am always grateful to my team-mates at Milan for what we achieved.
I never thought I was an achiever and was always low on confidence.
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.
Any time someone achieves success before they've earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
