“Having only one pancake is like listening to Gladys O’Hare sing only one pip.”
“No one stays for you. Everybody stays depending on their need for you.”
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
“We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.”
“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”
“Men are only as great as they are kind.”
“Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months
See what happens to your life.”
“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”