What do the people closest to you value? Make a list of the most important people in your life - from home, work, church, hobbies, and so on. After making the list, write what each person values most....

Leadership is responsible. Losing is unacceptable. Passion is unquenchable. Creativity is essential. Quitting is unthinkable. Commitment is unquestionable. Victory is inevitable.

John Wesley: Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

reduce a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death, to one less severe: the governor recently commuted the sentences of dozens of women convicted of killing their husbands.

You can't tell me that I don't know you. I see you. I see you better than you see yourself. And everything about you is beautiful.

It's seductive, to live in a virtual space, especially when the real world isn't what you want it to be.

I'd learned from my mother that when someone gives you a subjective compliment - meaning one that can't be disproven and is based on opinion - but that you find to be completely false, rather than...

We can't change the past. But we can change how much importance we allow it to have over our future.

No one expects an eighty - five - year - old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George.

Time is the "moving image of eternity."

But there is virtually no relationship between being an expert and being seen as someone people can trust with their secrets, doubts, and vulnerabilities. A petty office tyrant or micromanager may be...

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of...

I I know where it is, she thought. Then she whipped around and said loudly, But I need your help. Stacy blushed. She had said the words loud enough that everyone in the great room had turned to look...

There are stories that explain how the High God was deposed: Ouranos, the Sky God of the Greeks, for example, was actually castrated by his son Kronos, in a myth that horribly illustrates the...

The moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in the interests of an unfettered rationalism.

It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own - not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction - not seeking anything through the...

Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without.

No one knew how to end it. The war had settled into unbearable, unwinnable battles. It had reached a point where there were no more victories, only death.

I always had the faith that this country would elect those who knew best, who could follow the best course through any situation.

Third, you learn to make different explanations, called reattributions, and use them to dispute your automatic thoughts.

Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.

"Anybody with a phone can battle and imprison you forever." "Well I would like very much for that not to happen to me." "Right, so you need to avoid people who are playing the game." "How do I know if...

We should poison him," Savannah said. "Why do you always want to poison people?" Dugas asked her. "I don't want to poison people. I want to poison d'Ambray."

Oh. They were trying to be inconspicuous. I bit my lip to keep from laughing. I'd never had an attempt at intimidation whispered at me before.

Built in an elegant fusion of Italianate, French, and early Disney styles, this magnificent estate offers a thousand bathrooms for all of your executive Cinderella needs...

Some people awoke to escape their nightmares. I awoke into one.

Well, nobody can say that this siege is boring.

For a time you can be alone and doing fine and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived...

I dipped my head so I could look into his eyes. The monster at my table looked ready to cry. I'd managed to make a teenager depressed. Maybe I could shoot some fish in a barrel for an encore.

"Do you remember when we went to the Black Sea and you pretended to be infatuated with Lorelei?" "Not that again." His face shut down. "I'm going to do something very dangerous and stupid. I've done...