I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine. " It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.
Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.
Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.
Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.