You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work. ' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works. ' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.
I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.
And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
As friends go it is less important to live.