What is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
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...
People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying