The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
It is not our circumstances that c reate our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined, and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.
To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.
Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business, but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers, administrators, even gofers-at least for a while.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.
My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!
Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
