I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
The devil has his elect.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. . . . Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).
I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'