In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you must only work again. You eat, but the next day, you are already hungry. You find love, then love goes away. You are born with nothing, you work hard, then you die with nothing. You are young, then you are old. No matter how hard you work, you cannot stop getting old. - Wayan

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

I think I deserve something beautiful.