The more you take away the less there is to hide behind and that's when the true talent comes out.
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe. ' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone. ' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut. ' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size. ' And he told me.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.