With the long list of supposedly health-endangering meals on our menus, ‘starving’ seems likea healthy option to have on our list of safe-to-eat meals.

It is possible, ” said Miss Marling stiffly, “that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of thejourney.”Vidal chuckled. “Not if I know my Mary, ” he replied

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

The beauty of hope is that it often become a reality.

The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure—to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn’t strike terror into your employees’ hearts.

If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.