Being powerful or powerless is a habit.

All the power in the world, resides inside you.If you let it.

No matter what, you can only live this moment.

You can find humor in everything. everything.

Trust is a two way street.

Short wins does not guarantee long victories.

The more you give, the more you get.

All power lies in free expression.

The key function of a leader is, to build more leaders.

What life is to humor, humor is to life.

start something, with a knowledge to end it.

One thing is needful and that is converting your time into fulfilling your purpose on the earth.

Real friends are like autotroph, whether you pay your intentions or not but they keep calm your noons.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.