John Ruskin

Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and every thing that happins to me from now on..

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.