I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn't want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
Sow good seeds for a good yield.
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
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...
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
You are rich if your heart is filled with an abundance of love.
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...
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.