The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Death cancels all engagements.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.
Don't let others define you. Define yourself.
I sighed and gestured toward him. "I'll take him. " In an undertone, I added, "Don't let me down, Zmey.
Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.