Marriage!. . . Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Men fight wars. Women win them.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.
We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely. . . . Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem. . . . Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters. . . First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.