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To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.
Each atom in Nature is the body of a virginal sparkle that incessantly evolves through time and space.
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.
No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.
If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.
Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.
We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.
Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.
Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.
Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.
He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
I've tried to be graceful and I've tried to make sure my arguments are grounded in reason and insight.
The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.
A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.
A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.
Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.
A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.
Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination.
All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?
I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.
I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.
Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!
When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
I've started running since I had kids, and I've become one of those annoying people who likes running.
I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.