“No one lacks voice. Not even the dead. But many lack ears, the ability to hear those stories out of which the most destitute of people are forging their destines, breathing life into bleached bones. ”

“Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.”

“Those who lack a sense of humor are destined to be life's hacked up hairballs.”

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.”

“But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.”

“Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.”