There is power in forgiveness.
Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.
You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.
Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.
You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.
My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
This is your life and the clock is ticking.
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.
You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.
