Thomas Wol

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.