Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude. . . today?
God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing. . . I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes. . . the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.
Sometimes to be a good parent. . . You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.
British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.