Anxieties, wrote Alfred Thayer Mahan, are the test and penalty of greatness.
Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is lik...
There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.
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...
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.