O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.