What a contrast - the person sitting at the table gets this nice cake on a doilie plate, while the pantry man back there with the stubby hands is saying, ‘Damn Deez Doilies!’ So that was the difference between the real world and what it looked like. So I found...

Disclaimer: I only made it halfway through this book. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. It is getting impossible to repair them, yet I take a lot of time and pains to do it anyway because I...

The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future The fact is that human beings come into this world with a passion for...

I hang suspended, until a septic truth bleeds towards clarity. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain. Is there cowardice in the...

“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold, and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price” - Kahlil Gibran

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or don’t have. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most...

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain I shall pass by this way but...

Pg 63 How to write a persuasive message anything you can do to reduce cognitive strain is good i.e. use high quality paper (if printed) to maximize contrast between characters, if in color you’re more likely to be believed if you use bright blue or red text vs....