Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.