Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.