if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

You can't conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

Renunciation is dropping the fear, anger, respect, and disrespect but continuously radiating unconditional love for everyone.

They also said she was unconscious and that Valentine wasn’t happy about it. He seems to be waiting for her to wake up.” “I’d stay unconscious if I were her,” Isabelle muttered.

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.