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Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.
I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want to do.
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.
To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.
The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.
What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.
Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.
This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.
She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.
The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.
We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.
I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.
When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls.
Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.
What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.
It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.
Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.
We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.
Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.
Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.
A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.