You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
Let's just say I know a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy.
People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Some people are immune to good advice.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.
Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.