If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings, / That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.

I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.