It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .
Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.
Death is the perfect knowing.
simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.
Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.