If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, read more

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you read more

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of read more

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that read more

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.