I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.
I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.
The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.