If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.
My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.
Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!
God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.
Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.
Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc. , and the perpetual strain of invention.
There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"