Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did. '
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
The biggest mistake entrepreneurs can make is trying to do everything themselves. They usually blow up when they try. I did an inventory of every deal I've ever done and it turned out that every single deal I made money on was a partnership, and every colossal failure, where I lost millions, was something I tried to do by myself.
I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.