I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.
Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.
Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. . . Give your approval to all you cannot understand. . . Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. . . Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . . Practice resurrection.
It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
It's not like we have a choice. We can't let what's happening happen. I mean, I've heard stories that are so horrible. I mean, people are killing themselves while they're waiting on line because they can't - you know, they know it's days and days before they can have what could be a simple procedure, what could be a simple prescription.
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.