Everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it’s nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.
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.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.
Today I am even richer.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
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...
Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...