Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
Every dog is a great barker at the door of his own house.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one.
The brave person regards dying as going home.
The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.
I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat.
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
A person is a guest for one or two days, but becomes an intruder on the third.
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
The person who has burned their fingers often asks for tongs.
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, . I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, a...
The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It is incoherent because a great deal of law implicitly "imposes" a particular moral view on the wider society. It would b...
It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not ...
I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere...
If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position hire the best writer. it doesn't matter if the person is marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever, their writing skills will pay off. That's because being a good writer...
Page 99: "...unless something changes, the future that you can expect is more of the past. Sorry or becoming committed does not make Jim Carrey a great golfer, or made Jack nicklaus funny. Recommitment does not make a person who is unsuited for a par...
I learned that one person hurting another really is like a hand curling into a fist to smash the foot. And that all that really matters is family and other people. And that the purpose of life is to find the Light of God, but not the light from some ...
In a recent Gallup poll conducted in France while riding a horse, two out of three sweaty Frenchman (there were only three people surveyed) stated that my armpits are the greatest thing since Louis XVI. Personally, I don't think they are that great. ...
