Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
Impossible is just an opinion.
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
All of it is God, and there is nothing else.
I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it. " But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.
We live at the edge of the miraculous.
It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.