I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.
Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.
She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body. My flesh tightened like a harpstring. I swallowed hard against the wave of liquid heat. "How can I possibly be jealous when I know you spent your time grieving for me, Dante?
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.