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The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.
Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving
You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.
Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you
I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story 'The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat' won a Chizine fiction contest in 2002.
The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband is a sculptor.
I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
To get great again, we need to recreate what made us great in the first place, and so we're going to have to let interest rates go up.
All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.
We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.
You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
So why aren’t you living with your sister?” “She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said. “You make it sound like she broke up with you.
What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit.
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.
We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.
NOT everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. some are born ,just to experience the abbreviation of it.
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.
When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.