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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.
True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.
If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.
I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night
Como un angel," I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.
My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
O dreamers of peace, come. Let us walk together. O lovers of peace, come. Let us run together. O servers of peace, come. Let us grow together.
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.
Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities.
Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.
Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.
All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.
Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean
The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.
Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.
He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’
Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.
Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.
It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.