When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.
My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized. Toward the demonized, however, he never expressed anger; rather he exhibited only compassion. As Langton notes, "Pity rather than anger characterizes the attitude of Jesus toward the possessed. . . He treats them as if they were the victims of an involuntary possession. " Indeed, he treats them as though they are casualties of war. For, in his view, this is precisely what they are.