I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.
When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.
Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.
If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.
People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.
Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.