Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.
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...
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.