The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints.
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
Sow good seeds for a good yield.
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...
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.