Forgiveness isn’t a gift we give the offender. It’s something we do for ourselves.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Never give up because when you give up, dreams get lost.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.