Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.
I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.
Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.
Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
It's a privilege and honor to write and star in my own comic. I can officially cross that off the bucket list!
I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.
We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.
Republican-led reforms would help Americans purchase their own coverage through the use of tax credits and expanded health savings accounts so that they can get a plan that works for them, not a one-size-fits-all plan forced on them by the government.
Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach.
The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.
To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
