Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?
Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
Things are strongest where they're broken.
It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.
Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.
We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?
But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.
As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.
Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.
Politics is not an exact science.