Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.
Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.
Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.