Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help. "
Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.
A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i. e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes - can help anybody get any better or worse at it.
Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.
I think now it's a very odd time in politics. It should be mostly about good governing. We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.
Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over. We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.
Time seems to slow down for me when I focus on staying in the moment and that helps me maintain a sense of balance.
Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.
A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.
I want to help small businesses grow and thrive. I know how to make that happen. I spent my life in the private sector. I know why jobs come and why they go.
People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.
Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live in every moment to nameless abysses, and the way language itself is beautifully, tragically, thrillingly insufficient. . . these are some of the engines that drive the poem. It's natural to want to turn away from these things. But we have to face them, as best we can, at least sometimes. Poetry can help us in that nearly impossible work.
Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.