a.r.asher

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

You are mine, and that means I am on your side even when no one else is.

She isn’t the sunrise, she’s the f**king sun.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves

I know nothing and my heart aches.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

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.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.