Jim Butcher Quote

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...

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and exp...

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Be a leader with a ladder, not a boss with an order.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.