Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.
A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.
We learn more about the character of people on one off day, than on all their best days put together.
I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?
Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.