I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.
In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
There is no state of final fulfillment. Each change opens new doors and ushers in new possibilities.
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
Trella! You’re here,” he said with glee. “Even though I’m not as smart as you, I do know where I am.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.
Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.
A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts
Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.
I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
A competitor is a valuable foil that unites a company from within and pushes the brand's boundaries.
Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.
Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.
What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.
I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.