Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.
Pitch tip: Speak confidently about your product, but be able to admit when you need more information, and get it to the people you're pitching quickly after the meeting.
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
Embrace your colour, heritage, whatever you want, but don't let it confine you. Just live without labels.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician's circle, and confining your audience to partisans.
Every time I put out music and it goes well, it's a confirmation of your taste and your gut.
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures acting upon on your state budget is a recipe for disaster.
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
