The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.
Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.
I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.
God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use
The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.
Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.
Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.
I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.
