Beyond the Rhetoric

“If you’re afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody’s perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don’t work as well as you think they do.” For better or for worse, appearances matter. When you go into a job interview, you want to look as qualified as possible. When you’re doing [...]

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” Life isn’t easy. I think most of us can accept that we are going to face challenges and hardships along the way, but it’s important to perceive these as learning opportunities. It is through these opportunities [...]

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to [...]