The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.
When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.
Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed of the ocean than will exist at any other time on the surface of the continents.