The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little goodevidence.

When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole

Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.