There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Politics is too partisan and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

You know writing is really difficult and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others so much and I envy it.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists but simply announce that they are don't have the patience to make art.

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.