Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
what is not true does not exist in this moment.
You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.
Her screams spiraled up into the night air
Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.
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...
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.