Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
The thing we need most is each other.
One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.
Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.