The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
— Storm Jameson
Hope is a talent like any other.
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?