A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax!
We must have Sunni-Arabs involved in this coalition [against ISIS]. We must commit leadership, strength, support and resolve.
The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.
When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.
When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something. Mrs. Clinton, flying is an activity not an accomplishment.
Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?
But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back. ' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think