And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.
The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.
Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
We all need to be reminded to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
The devil won't stay where there is music.
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own.