You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
If it is conditional, it is not love
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.
All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.
If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?