Rewards usually improve performance only at extremely simple—indeed, mindless—tasks, and even then they improve only quantitative performance.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. Help us to choose patience over making a point, and your Word over our feelings. Lord, help us to choose persev...
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, wh...