What’s different? Sweat, risk, uncertainty, inconvenience. But also, awe. Pride. Something ineffably splendid and stirring.
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
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.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.