A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.
Time flies when you’re changing the world.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman’s make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.
I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.
When I look out at the people and they look at me and they’re smiling, then I know that I’m loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter… I am so unlucky.
While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
There’s no such thing as quality time; there’s only quantity time.
When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one’s illegal. They should just be able to come.
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
I’ve been obsessed with sunglasses since the beginning of time.
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.
