Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.
I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.