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If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.

Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me?....I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.

The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of the country.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.

The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

Criticism precedes admiration and – like it or not – goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done.

An MBA doesn’t impress me. A GSD does. GSD = Gets Stuff Done.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.