Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.