The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Post je objavljen 26.05.2010. u 08:21 sati.