People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Room
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It’s about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
I’m so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they’re very nice decor in a room – far better than paintings… That’s not quite true!