You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.
Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.
For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune. . . Income seldom exceeds personal development.
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.
I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.