More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.
Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.
The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.
A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.
Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.
What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.
I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.
There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.