Novels and stories are not arguments; they set out not to convince, but to beguile.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Your every positive action in your life will increase your self-esteem and this self-esteem will boost you for more positive action to take you on success
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...
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
whenever i am in pain,i just think of watching your eye's in rain!
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
When God is ready for you to move, He will make your situation uncomfortable.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
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...