Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Eventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
I was on the yearbook staff so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.
My father who was from a wealthy family and highly educated a lawyer Yale and Columbia walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother a seventh grade graduate who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant if not the most momentous event of our generation.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Words matter especially words defining complicated political arrangements because they shape perceptions of the events of the past attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
Doctors dressed up in one professional costume or another have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
In retrospect the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
I look forward to a time in the not so distant future when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.