Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.
Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.
The small day-to-day decisions will determine the course of your lives.
Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.
These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.
Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen.
The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
I'm no parenting guru. I suppose you just take everyday as it comes and do what you think is best.
But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.
Legal fear affects the ordinary choices of Americans all day long.
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
