Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. . . . I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. . . . It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
Whatever you put your attention on in this life, will increase in your life. As you put your attention on angels, they will begin increasingly to make their presence known to you.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.
Entrepreneurs stand out from the rest of the pack because they are not afraid to take big risks and they aim to please no one except the people who truly matter.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it. '
Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.
As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
I can be a better me than anyone can.
I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
