It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!
Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.
When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude
No temptation is a temptation, unless we are entertaining it.
The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.