Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a fixed exchange rate, abolish your central bank and adopt a currency board instead. Either extreme; a fixed exchange rate through a currency board, but no central bank, or a central bank plus truly floating exchange rates; either of those is a tenable arrangement. But a pegged exchange rate with a central bank is a recipe for trouble.
Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.