If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.