Peter Abrahams Quote

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is heali...

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.

The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty

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.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.