The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves.
You are nearly there," said James. "Very close. We are. . . so proud of you.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market
What we're all sort of trying to do in our lives is to make the simplest things work out the best.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.