You can’t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.
There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.
Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer. " "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.
I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.
It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it
Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.
We are not very good at this. Our success rests on our international experience and on our ability to read the market. And I contest the notion that you can only succeed in China when you are well-connected. Neither my husband nor I are "princelings" - children of influential people, that is. And yet China has enabled us to succeed.