The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.