Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive.
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.