I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rol...
I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset.Let's cook, Frannie said energetically....
I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if there were not something like a soul or like a spirit that is in the life of a person and which could e...
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more cl...
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.
In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.
In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do...
In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!
In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasur...
Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act.
It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.
Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.
My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fa...
New karma is being made all the time. When one acts with a positive motivation, goodness is furthered. When one acts out of negative motivation, negativity is furthered. We can recondition ourselves t...
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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