Sometimes, he observed obliquely, you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.p. 267: Chade to Fitz
More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i...
The best thing you can wear is self confidence.
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...
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you
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.
The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without consc...