Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
If you can educate girls, you can change the world.
There is no either or between being competitive and collaborative. You have to be both and decide which in each situation.
You can love your job, but your job will not love you back.
Successful women have an aura that says ‘I belong in this seat’.
Women are always angsting over things. Guys don’t do that.
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.
I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.