The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.
Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.