Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.

What is the point of learning things if you are not even doing things?

Rich folk don't try so hard

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.

I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in America jump to conclusions about each other.

I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.