I'm not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination
It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.
Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.
Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination
How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.
LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. Let yourself rediscover peace in your heart. And, from that secure place, meet whatever comes.
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.