Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our ideas; a change which, by its rapidity, seems to us to foreshadow another still greater. Time alone will tell the aim, the nature and limits of this revolution, whose inconveniences and advantages our posterity will recognize better than we can.
Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.
To lead is to be yourself in a world of clones